City report · Punjab, Pakistan
Shahkot Air quality today
Air quality in Shahkot currently reads AQI 235 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 235
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 135.9
- tree cover
- 14.7%
- trees in this area
- 46.2K
- more trees needed
- 95.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Shahkot, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 11, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Shahkot · AQI 235 (Very unhealthy)
Shahkot's tree count comes to 46,181 trees across 12.57 km², 30 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 95,190 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Shahkot today: AQI 235, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 06:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 45 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 45 km, e.g. Nankana Sahib and Chak Jhumra
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
135.9
PM10
255.2
NO₂
37.0
O₃
45.0
SO₂
13.2
CO
731.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Shahkot's daily AQI at 234 on average, from 136 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 442 on Nov 11.
Where Shahkot stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Shahkot: Critically low
14.7% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
46,181
Target trees
141,371
More trees needed
95,190
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,094 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Shahkot lost?
There was almost no forest around Shahkot in 2000, so there has been almost nothing to lose since. Only fairly dense woodland counts as forest in these maps, so scattered street and garden trees don't show up here.
2017: satellite photo from September 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
These figures cover everything within 10 km of the city center, a wider area than the report above, because forest is usually lost at a city's edges.
Source: Hansen/UMD/Google/USGS/NASA, Global Forest Change (GFC-2025-v1.13); causes: WRI/Google DeepMind drivers of forest loss; both CC BY 4.0, summed by Airleaf for each area. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
In the same region
Measured cities near Shahkot
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Sangla Hill18.9 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 17%
- Air quality
- 196
- Nankana Sahib24.9 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 12%
- Air quality
- 461
- Jaranwala27.2 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 15%
- Air quality
- 224
- Chak Jhumra28.6 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 18%
- Air quality
- 193
- Faisalabad41.3 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 13%
- Air quality
- 193
- Pindi Bhattian41.6 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 6%
- Air quality
- 487
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Shahkot right now?
The latest reading for Shahkot shows an AQI of 235 (Very unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 06:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 45 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Shahkot today?
At AQI 235 (Very unhealthy): everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 if you go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Shahkot been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Shahkot's daily AQI at 234 on average, from 136 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 442 on Nov 11. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Shahkot lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Shahkot in 2000, so there has been almost nothing to lose since. Only fairly dense woodland counts as forest in these maps, so scattered street and garden trees don't show up here.
What is the tree count in Shahkot?
Shahkot has an estimated 46,181 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 14.7% tree cover, 30 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Shahkot need?
Shahkot needs roughly 95,190 more trees to close a 30-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,094 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Shahkot's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality comes from ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ where one reports nearby, and otherwise, as here, from the Open-Meteo / CAMS model, which may differ from street-level monitors. Tree cover is measured from Sentinel-2 L2A (ESA Copernicus) via Earth Search satellite imagery at 10 m detail across a 2 km radius around Shahkot; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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